And as the Climate Conference wraps up we look at what the change of attitude in washington means for the rest of the world. In the last few hours there have been clear signs that zimbabwes embattled leader is fast losing support state t. V. Began its friday evening news broadcast with a call from the ruling its on a party for Robert Mugabe to resign the presidency and his wife grace to leave the party hours earlier the aging leader made his first public appearance since an Army Takeover on wednesday that the already has all but collapsed and pressurized and mounting for him to quit and washington u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson told a gathering of African Business leaders that he hopes of ol boy returns to civilian rule as soon as possible. I know all of us are following very closely the bench in zimbabwe and and they are concerned to know each of you their concerned us as well and we all should Work Together for a quick return to civilian rule in that country in accordance wit
Activities, but also in terms of i did logical mobilization in terms of propaganda, in terms of the way you motivate a populous in order go to total war. And i indicated to you that when various leaders talked about the war as being motivated by racial ideology in attempts to secure racial purity, theres a total lizing effect. So when Adolph Hitler talks about the destruction of the jews in 1939, very clearly thats the language of total war in its own way. Equally i spoke to you before about the language of human rights and the articulation of war aims by Franklin Roosevelt and the various other allied leaders and wait in which they promised human rights would be secured everywhere in the world. Also a total guarantee. Other frooiss that have a totalizing quality are those like Unconditional Surrender which we talked about implying that there had to be a total victory rather than an arm miss stus. Today i want to talk about a specific trop in the language of total war, and that is reve
Army officer in 2002. He then spent one year in iraq as a tank platoon leader and later, one year tour in afghanistan. Nicholas is a general in the Army Staff College and specialist in war gaming americas inhouse tanker and historian since 2012 and has the nickname of the chieftain. You might want to remember that. His first book on the development of Tank Destroyers is scheduled for release in the first half of 2018. Nick is known for written articles and reviews of tanks inside and out. Lots on youtube called inside the chieftains hatch. Or this video cast on cspans American History tv. Ladies and gentlemen, nicholas moran. [ applause ] thats about as high up as it goes. Good evening oh, boy. Okay. So todays talk is on world war ii and why the sheryl man is as it was. Thats actually not a very good title but the best i could come up with when i was asked by rob, hey, will you give us a talk. I will do the obligatory shoutout, they are the people that asked me to come out here. We are
You, you seek revenge, you retaliate, they interp fret pre as a wrong, they come back at you. The momentum of total lang wachbling war is sped onwards by the rhetoric and ideas of revenge. When hitler talks about the destruction of the jews, he phrases it in the language of revenge. He blames them, obviously, inappropriately, but he blames them for the german loss in world war i, he blamed it for the Great Depression and for starting world war ii. So it is an act of revenge, in part. Weve also seen of course the language of revenge in terms of the americans fighting the japanese in the pacific. Im going to talk a little bit today about the language of revenge worked for some other combatants in the european theater of operation on both of axis and the allied side and weight effort to seek revenge drove the war onward in europe in the years that we have now reached, which are approximately those of 1942 43. And i want to begin by looking at the czech government exile. The man you see on
But certainly since he was a significant general in the civil war, everyone understood he wasnt physically there. [ applause ] so i will hang out. Some of you are wanting to go and find out whats happening in the hockey game. Next week is mckinley. Another set of really fascinating stories. On saturday, cspans issues spotlight looks at police and Race Relations. Well show you president obama at the Memorial Service for Police Officers shot and killed in dallas. When the bullets started flying, the men and women of the dallas police, they did not flinch and they did not react recklessly. And South Carolina republican senator tim scott giving a speech on the senate floor about his own interactions with police. But the vast majority of the time i was pulled over for nothing more than driving a new car in the wrong neighborhood or some other reason just as trivial. Our program also includes one familys story about an encounter with police in washington, d. C. , followed by a badge the city